April Confrontation: AMD and Intel Start the Price War. Page 10

In April we will witness a tremendous price drop on dual-core Intel and AMD processors. We decided to take a look at the future and check out our comparative testing of the most popular dual-core CPU models that become even more attractive after the upcoming price-list corrections.

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I don’t think any commentary is necessary. The situation is almost identical on all charts. Intel processors on Core micro-architecture have much higher frequency reserves than their competitors on AMD K8 micro-architecture. So, Athlon 64 X2 processors selling for about $230 work at the maximum of their potential while the Core 2 Duo CPUs priced about the same allow over 45% of frequency increase as a result of overclocking. So, those overclockers who decide on Core 2 Duo, get much more opportunities to increase their systems performance, than those who pick Athlon 64 X2 processors. The diagrams above prove this point. Any chart you take demonstrates indisputable advantage of overclocked Core 2 Duo processors on Conroe or Allendale core over the competing Athlon 64 X2 on Windsor or Brisbane.